WASHINGTON >> Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted after hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate today in the middle of a House vote on a $1.2 trillion package to keep the government open.
A federal judge ruled that Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., can proceed with their lawsuit against two California cities for canceling their political rallies — though not without chastising the two provocative Republicans for their “stunning” effort to blame civil rights organizations for the cancellations. In an opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Hernán Vera determined that Gaetz and Greene had adequate grounds to allege that the cancellation of their events...
Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted after hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate on Friday in the middle of a House vote on a $1.2 trillion package to keep the government open. It’s the same political dynamic that removed the last Republican speaker,
It's the second time in less than a year that House Republicans have pushed to remove their elected leader.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor
It’s the same political dynamic that removed the last Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a motion to vacate on Friday during a House vote on a $1.2 trillion package to keep government open. Greene says it's a “warning” to the Louisiana lawmaker. It’s the same political dynamic that removed the last Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy, months ago. McCarthy's was the first such ouster of a speaker after far-right conservatives revolted over his compromise with Democrats to...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown. Johnson, R-La., has served as speaker for five months, having taken over for Kevin McCarthy who was ousted from the top job under a similar process. It was not immediately clear how the House would act on her motion, which requires just a majority vote to remove the speaker. Greene,...
Katrina vanden Heuvel How the effort to bank TikTok is a fascinating case study in transpartisan politics.
Chris Lehmann The Georgia representative filed a motion to vacate Speaker of the House Mike Johnson this morning.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, was the subject of a scathing piece from the conservative Wall Street Journal's editorial board on Friday after she introduced a motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.On Friday morning, the House voted 286-134 to pass a $1.2 trillion government funding bill, narrowly avoiding a partial shutdown of the federal government. Funding bills such as this have become subject of increasingly intense debate in the highly polarized modern...
Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is already at risk of the same conservative revolt that took down his predecessor. The Louisiana Republican, who only took the gavel in October after weeks of GOP infighting, was put on “warning” by one of his harshest critics Friday after he helped push through a $1.2 trillion spending package with majority Democratic votes despite heavy criticism from his right flank. During the vote, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a...